The report also says that Lewinsky testified that she and the President had 10 sexual encounters, which included oral sex but never intercourse. The encounters generally occurred in or near the private study off the Oval Office, most often in a windowless hallway outside the President’s study.

According to the report, Lewinsky said she had about 50 telephone conversations with the President, often after 10 p.m. and sometimes well after midnight. Sometimes they talked about “everything under the sun,” she testified. Other times, the report says in citing her testimony, they had phone sex.

She gave him about 30 gifts, including six neckties, an antique paperweight showing the White House, and a mug emblazoned “Santa Monica,” according to the report. He gave her 18 gifts, including a hat pin, two brooches, a blanket, a marble bear figurine, and a special edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, the document says.

The report also says that Lewinsky told her psychologist, Irene Kassorla, about the affair shortly after it began in November 1995. Kassorla said Lewinsky showed no indications of delusional thinking, and Kassorla had no doubts about the truth of Lewinsky’s account, the report says.

Another Lewinsky confidant, her friend Neysa Erbland, said Clinton once confided in Lewinsky “that he was uncertain whether he would remain married after he left the White House. He said in essence, `Who knows what will happen four years from now when I am out of office?’ According to Erbland, Lewinsky thought that `maybe she will be his wife,’ ” the report says.

The report also details for the first time some of the testimony by Secret Service agents and officers – whose on-the-job observations Starr went to the Supreme Court to obtain after the Clinton administration tried to create a “protective-function privilege.”

“From radio traffic about the president’s movements, several officers observed that the president often would head for the Oval Office within minutes of Ms. Lewinsky’s entry to the White House complex, especially on weekends, and some noted that he would return to the residence a short time after her departure,” the report says.

“It was just like clockwork,” one officer testified, according to the report.

Another Secret Service officer, concerned about the President’s reputation, suggested putting Lewinsky on a list of people who were not to be admitted to the White House.

“A commander responded that it was none of their business whom the president chose to see, and, in any event, nobody would ever find out about Ms. Lewinsky,” the report says.

The report says that on Easter, April 7, 1996, Lewinsky performed oral sex on the President while he talked on the telephone, and that she presumed the caller was Dick Morris, the political consultant who was disgraced in 1996 by an extramarital relationship with a prostitute. The report says White House logs show that Clinton talked to Morris from 5:11 to 5:20 p.m., during Lewinsky’s visit.

Secret Service Officer John Muskett testified that Lewinsky arrived at 4:45 p.m. that day, saying she needed to deliver documents to the President. Muskett opened the door, and Lewinsky entered. About 20 to 25 minutes later, the telephone outside the Oval Office rang, Muskett testified. The White House operator said that the President had an important call but that he was not picking up.

An agent working with Muskett knocked on the door to the Oval Office. When the President did not respond, the agent entered, the report says. The Oval Office was empty, and the door leading to the study was slightly ajar.

The agent called out: “Mr. President?”

There was no response. The agent stepped into the Oval Office and called out more loudly, “Mr. President?”

This time, the report says, there was a response from the study area, according to Muskett: “Huh?”

The agent called out that the President had a phone call, and the President said he would take it, according to the report.

A few minutes later, adviser Harold Ickes said he needed to see the President. Muskett admitted him, and less than a minute later, Muskett said he heard a door close audibly. Muskett saw Lewinsky walk briskly away, the report says.

Besides revealing some of the Secret Service testimony, the report describes the central role that presidential secretary Betty Currie played in arranging private meetings between Lewinsky and Clinton.

Currie said Lewinsky would call her to say she wanted to see the President, sometimes to discuss a particular topic, the report says. The secretary then would ask Clinton, and if he agreed, she would arrange the meeting, the report says.

Currie testified that she suspected impropriety in the President’s relationship with Lewinsky, the report says.

“He was spending a lot of time with a 24-year-old young lady,” Currie testified. “I know he has said that young people keep him involved in what’s happening in the world, so I knew that was one reason, but there was a concern of mine that she was spending more time than most.”

Currie testified that she tried to avoid learning details of the relationship between the President and Lewinsky. Once Lewinsky said: “As long as no one saw us – and no one did – then nothing happened.” To that, Currie responded: “Don’t want to hear it. Don’t say anymore.”

The report also details some of the “cover stories” Clinton and Lewinsky used to conceal their affair. While the President did not expressly instruct her to lie, the report says, he did suggest misleading cover stories, according to Lewinsky.

After telling him she was a potential witness in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit against him, the President suggested that, if Lewinsky were subpoenaed, she could file an affidavit to avoid being deposed, the report says.

Clinton also told her she could say that when working at the White House, she had sometimes delivered letters to him, and that, after leaving the White House job, she had sometimes returned to visit Currie, the report says.

As for the blue dress, one of the most sensational allegations in the investigation, the report says that when Lewinsky took the dress out of her closet, she noticed stains on it and surmised they were from the President. Initial tests revealed that the stains were semen. Starr’s prosecutors asked the President for a blood sample, and he agreed.

On Aug. 3, 1998, in the White House Map Room, the White House physician drew a vial of blood from the President in the presence of an FBI agent and one of Starr’s prosecutors. The FBI conducted two standard DNA comparison tests, and the more sensitive one concluded the match was conclusive: The odds that the DNA was not Clinton’s are one in 7.87 trillion.

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